Canning? Yes, you can!

10:54 PM,
Feb. 18, 2014

Channel some presidential inspiration for George Washington Cherry Jam.

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Nothing quite like deadline pressure to kick you into gear. That's exactly what did it, end of last summer.

It was a Saturday night showdown. I had a morning flight to Seattle, and the last of our pear harvest was rapidly ripening on my counter and in my fridge. It was then or never. Well, then or next year.

If I wasn't going to do SOMETHING to preserve at least SOME of those pears, how the heck was I going to face those trees the following spring and urge on more fruit? What were they going to say to any orchard newbies we planted? Scoff and grumble, "Dilettantes" behind our back every time we walked by to ...